Southern Local held their District Spelling Bee on February 7. Sixteen spellers from grades 5 through 8 competed for the honor to attend the County Spelling Bee. The County Spelling Bee will be held March 2 at Beaver Local.

It took 9(nine) rounds to determine the winners. Round 5 (five), Gemma Jackson and Delaney Beadnell had a spell off to determine who would be the 3rd place winner. Delaney correctly spelled her word to become the 3rd place winner. Addysin Andrenok and Emerson Gotschall competed to determine who would be 1st and 2nd place winners. The 9th Round, Addysin misspelled her word. Emerson correctly spelled dispersal. She correctly spelled lavish to claim the 1st place winner. 

Congratulations to all participants!

Row 1 (L-R): Delaney Beadnell, Emerson Gotschall, Addysin Andrenok 

Row 2 (L-R): Maddie Rhodes, Emma Boyle, Katie Kellogg, Kalayah Crute

Row 3 (L-R): Gemma Jackson, Brooke Akers, Brooklyn Glosser, Jaymen Maines

Row 4 (L-R): Hailey Pitts, Ava Paxson, Patricia Smith, Sophie Pierson,  Madalyn Smith

Pictured left to right: 

Delaney Beadnell (3rd Place), Emerson Gotschall (1st Place), Addysin Andrenok (2nd Place)

2023 Participants

Southern Local held their annual Spelling Bee, Wednesday February 15 in the Elementary Gymnasium. Students from grades 5 through 8 participated in the Spelling Bee. They include: 5th Grade: Landon Cranston, Gemma Jackson, Jaymen Maines, Liam Pitts, and Maddie Smith 6th Grade: Addysin Andrenok, Bryton Beadle, Eliana Forbes, Brook Hickman, Lucie Lee, and Daniel Peters 7th grade: Delaney Beadnell, Emerson Gotschall, and Gracie Lee 8th grade: Ava Reed and Ella Roberts. The County Spelling Bee will be held Saturday March 4 at 9:30 at the Crestview Performing Arts Complex.

By round 4, we had our three representatives and a total of 19 rounds to determine who the 2023 1st place champion would be for the County Spelling Bee. Sixth grader, Daniel Peters is our 3rd place winner. Seventh grader, Delaney Beadnell is our 2nd place winner. Eighth grader, Ava Reed in our 1st place winner. Congratulations to our winners!

Row 1 (l to r): 2nd place Delaney Beadnell, 1st place Ava Reed, 3rd place Daniel Peters
Row 2 (l to r): Lucie Lee, Jaymen Maines, Bryton Beadle, Brook Hickman, Eliana Forbes
Row 3 (l to r): Liam Pitts, Maddie Smith, Emerson Gotschall, Ella Roberts, Gracie Lee
Row 4 (l to r): Addysin Andrenok, Gemma Jackson, Landon Cranston

2022 District Spelling Bee Participants

Pictured are winners: Ella Roberts, Delaney Beadnell and Alli Myers and the other participants:
5th Graders: April Beadnell, Emma Boyle, Brook Hickman, and Ariana Hermey
6th Graders: Emma Jones, Gracie Lee, and Savannah Patrick
7th Graders: Hailey Maines, Kemper Jones, Ava Reed
8th Graders: Maleah Rose, Abbianna Bates, and Leah Batcha

(Pictured L to R): 7th Grader, Ella Roberts - 1st Place Runner Up
6th Grader, Delaney Beadnell - Champion
8th Grader, Alliandra "Alli" Myers - 2nd Place Runner Up

Delaney Beadnell, District Spelling Bee Champion

Alli Myers, 3rd place

Ella Roberts, 2nd place

On Wednesday March 2, the Columbiana County Spelling Bee started with 46 semi-finalists in grades 5 through 8. After a 35 minute on-line Scripps spelling testing in which participants listened to 30 words and tried to spell as many as possible, 23 participants emerged as finalists. Eighth grader, Alliandra "Alli" Myers was one of the 23 to advance to the in-person finals. The County Spelling Bee finals will be held Wednesday, March 9th at 6:30p.m. at Lisbon David Anderson High School. Congratulations Alli and good luck!

The 2021 District Spelling Bee

Due to policy of COVID-19 students are masked and social distancing. There were no audience present during the Spelling Bee.

Delaney Beadnell, Spelling Bee Champion

Mystic Myers, 2nd place

Jensen Allender, 3rd place